excellent reference, one of my favorite albums. did a killer paper on it for my frosh english class. got to listen to the album on the school library’s awesome turntables for hours on end while I wrote.
Needfuldoer
It’s one of the best “sit down and listen to it all the way through” albums. ]
Frothy Surf’s portfolio really kinda dipped in quality around 2016-2018, when she was going through that really cheap-looking cosplay phase, and I was a little confused by the tree stuff around 2022, but her latest batches of stuff have been pretty universally good.
Smash cut to her waking up. (well without the last page’s comic i’d think it’d be 50/50 on her dreaming) tho i imagine it’s more of a waking nightmare if he’s not reciprocating
Hard to say honestly. By Sarah’s own design they’ve rarely had deeper conversations. I do feel she wouldn’t still be trying so hard if it was purely sexual attraction. She gave up on him before because of that exact reason.
Throwatron
I’ve said this elsewhere, but look at her face in panel 3. Panel 4 is a sincere feeling that she does have! But panel 3 is a different, sincere, intense feeling she also has about Jacob…but of the two, she’s only capable of the level of vulnerability required, to communicate the second feeling, and not the first.
This is how I’ve always interpreted it: From the get go Sarah wanted to jump his bones, but when Jacob offhandedly mentioned that he wasn’t interested in sexual relationships she repressed and shoved everything inward. At this point, I don’t think she even knows if she has romantic feelings for him because she’s been avoiding/ignoring it for so long. Granted, it may also be a case of Sarah being stubborn. She wanted Jacob physically and wasn’t interested in a romantic relationship, and has ignored any growing feelings out of sheer stubbornness. This seems like a long time for Sarah to carry a torch if there’s no romantic feelings behind it, but then again it’s probably only a few months in comic time so who knows.
thejeff
I think she does have more romantic feelings, but those are far more repressed. She’s scared of romance the way Joyce was scared of sex.
i guess jacob was expecting maybe to be out on a date but i imagine it’s not exactly pleasant to be hit on in a more sexual way when he’s specifically told her that he didn’t want to be objectified/seen more than just a piece of meat to ppl
I think she meant “repeatedly, in between growing and changing together as people in a long-term relationship, like the sea and a cliff change together over decades and longer”…? Maybe? Rather than a one-off climactic smash…
But her parents-divorce-trauma seems to include a side of “relationships are transient. You can’t expect anything to last” so maybe not, or maybe not consciously, or maybe she’d like that but doesn’t think it’s realistic…
Oh hey, it’s the kind of encounter he explicitly said he’d prefer to avoid, like a decade ago. Like, he wants to be wanted for more than his body and Sarah was all “Damn, now I feel bad for only wanting your body.” and now she’s all “Damn, get your body in my body”, so that’s probably gonna be a little weird for him. It’s like the author remembered previously-established character traits or something.
To be fair, it doesn’t have to be a downside as long as that’s not the only reason she’s interested in him. He only doesn’t want to be seen JUST as a sexual being, not that he’s celibate altogether.
It probably should be a downside given that one of Jacob’s big early character moments was him talking about how he struggled with being seen as a sex object. Like, I hope he takes this well because it would be good for both characters if he did, but I’m really not expecting him to take this well and this was kinda fucked up of Sarah to say.
StClair
Honest, though!
Throwatron
All things considered, Jacob is clearly interested in Sarah on some level, ’cause he’s still putting up with all of this.
Mark
Maybe he likes unsolved mysteries.
Wereg
I’m trying my hardest to not read Sarah’s actions in the worst light possible, but good god do I not understand why Jacob’s putting up with her antics. I’m glad he is, but I don’t get it.
DashWallkick
He’s gotten to know her pretty well, has fond feelings towards Joyce (minus one big incident), and knows that they’re deeply close and trust one another. He knows that Sarah struggles with vulnerability and some of that comes from Raidah.
Ergo — Sarah has to have some part of her that’s better for him, he knows she’s into him, and he’s just patiently trying to encourage her to be upfront about it. Hence why he put his foot down with her in the gym. If she’s willing to put in the effort, he’s willing to as well. She just has to make the first scary step.
This is basically close enough, graded on a Sarah Curve(tm)
I agree. Also this is how a ton of horror stories start – with frothy surf beating against a rocky cliffside, not the college students coming on to each other. Though I guess a lot of horror tales start that way, too.
I assume the counselors in the original Friday the 13th were college students.
Though in my anecdotal experience, it’s actually High School kids, specifically seniors, that start horror movies off the most (Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, I know what you did last summer).
Hell, old school Scooby-Doo cartoons sometimes had both, though most people outside the cartoon wouldn’t call it a horror, though it probably feels like one to the characters.
Yeah, but even if this relationship has nowhere to go, it’s cathartic to *finally* see Sarah get this off her chest. Now if Jacob rejects her, she can actually process it and ultimately find a new rocky cliffside upon which to manifest as a frothy surf.
I’m sure somewhere deep down Sarah would have to care a bit about jacob, otherwise she’d prolly just pick a joe-adjacent ‘fuckboy’ that wouldn’t be a bother to her after a hookup to ‘get it out of her system’ so to speak
Yeah, she clearly feels a focused, burning passion for him. The fact that her feelings are erotic doesn’t mean she’s just generically horny.
… Although, I recall she did remark to Joyce that she just wanted to “use him for his body once or twice”. I think that was just what the politicians call “locker room talk”.
Guessing it will continue to feel great for Sarah to have said that for a good five, maybe ten more seconds before her mortification levels exceed 500% of maximum
That’s pretty candorous. Candorful. I don’t think she’s going to get what she’s hoping for, we already know he doesn’t like other people seeing him as just a sex object. I like to read him as not even looking for romance right now, just friends.
Let’s see how he rejects her. I kind of want him to not take her candor as well as he said he would. I mean it would suck for both of them, but Jacob’s a little too boring. More “Jacob does not understand”, less “oh he’s so patient”, please.
I’ve got a ship for Sarah though, but not during gay pride month. Going to wait until straight indifference month, Heteronorvember.
Pretty sure that’s a Star Wars character, not a word.
Candorous Ordo. I think he’s in Knights of the Old Republic.
LeafletErin
Yes. Canderous Ordo (Later known as Mandalor the Preserver) is a character from the 2 KotOR games.
However given their spelling my guess is that they were attempting to find the proper tense of the word “Candor” for their statements.
Candor being defined as follows: “the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.”
Mark
That’s what I read: the next level above “candid”. It’s a word I want to remember.
192 thoughts on “Delightful”
NGPZ
*plays “Abracadabra” by Steve Miller’s Band on hacked muzak*
Clif
I’m going to go way out on a limb and predict that this will not end well.
Pergola
There will be poetry.
Needfuldoer
Was I Am the Sea off of Quadrophenia a little too on the nose?
raultsi
excellent reference, one of my favorite albums. did a killer paper on it for my frosh english class. got to listen to the album on the school library’s awesome turntables for hours on end while I wrote.
Needfuldoer
It’s one of the best “sit down and listen to it all the way through” albums. ]
Nobody does rock operas anymore. 🙁
Freezer
Follows up with chiptune version of “Freak Like Me”
Amós Batista
Wait a sec: I’ve listened this somewhere: the nem Eminem’s song, Houdini
Ana Chronistic
“just thought you should know… so, uh… bye” *runs away*
IntangibleMatter
She means this literally, of course. She wants turn into a churning fluid through which she can repeatedly bodyslam Jacob
RassilonTDavros
Man, that’d be a hell of a Slipshine.
Throwatron
I-
…
Is that not how everyone feels?
Clif
I have never felt any urge to bodyslam Jacob, so apparently not.
Tan
The allosexuals are not okay.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Yay new word! While this isn’t quite what it means, I’m now picturing people greeting each other, ” ‘allo,” and then they jizz in their pants.
eh, whatever
…no…?
StClair
amazingly, not the kinkiest thing Zeus ever did.
Proto
Wanting to express love via body slams is very on brand for Sarah so I’d believe that interpretation.
Grimey
Lord.
Animedingo
Rocky cliffside and forthy surf are my favorite pornstars
Taffy
Frothy Surf’s portfolio really kinda dipped in quality around 2016-2018, when she was going through that really cheap-looking cosplay phase, and I was a little confused by the tree stuff around 2022, but her latest batches of stuff have been pretty universally good.
Clif
I figured the tree stuff was just her branching out.
Opus the Poet
I agree with Lurch:
https://youtu.be/xCc-RWIp7XU?si=WIn4v3Rb7IGu67za
butting
Shouldn’t that be Larch?
Decidedly Orthogonal
The larch.
OBBWG
I recognized that from quite a long way away.
AY
Well, um. That’s one way to put it. Good job?
anon
Smash cut to her waking up. (well without the last page’s comic i’d think it’d be 50/50 on her dreaming) tho i imagine it’s more of a waking nightmare if he’s not reciprocating
Karla Jean
There’s honesty and there’s honesty and you really don’t want to be honest when you should just be honest.
Clif
And honestly, that’s pretty well put.
Sirksome
Maybe Jacob’s not ready for open and honest Sarah. That Sarah is pretty unhinged.
True Survivor
and seems to only want him for his body (or maybe seaside property???).
Sirksome
Hard to say honestly. By Sarah’s own design they’ve rarely had deeper conversations. I do feel she wouldn’t still be trying so hard if it was purely sexual attraction. She gave up on him before because of that exact reason.
Throwatron
I’ve said this elsewhere, but look at her face in panel 3. Panel 4 is a sincere feeling that she does have! But panel 3 is a different, sincere, intense feeling she also has about Jacob…but of the two, she’s only capable of the level of vulnerability required, to communicate the second feeling, and not the first.
S.R.
Well, “I find you extremely sexually attractive” doesn’t exclude the possibility of something else.
Chubseus
This is how I’ve always interpreted it: From the get go Sarah wanted to jump his bones, but when Jacob offhandedly mentioned that he wasn’t interested in sexual relationships she repressed and shoved everything inward. At this point, I don’t think she even knows if she has romantic feelings for him because she’s been avoiding/ignoring it for so long. Granted, it may also be a case of Sarah being stubborn. She wanted Jacob physically and wasn’t interested in a romantic relationship, and has ignored any growing feelings out of sheer stubbornness. This seems like a long time for Sarah to carry a torch if there’s no romantic feelings behind it, but then again it’s probably only a few months in comic time so who knows.
thejeff
I think she does have more romantic feelings, but those are far more repressed. She’s scared of romance the way Joyce was scared of sex.
StClair
I agree. (Romance, and vulnerability.)
anon
i guess jacob was expecting maybe to be out on a date but i imagine it’s not exactly pleasant to be hit on in a more sexual way when he’s specifically told her that he didn’t want to be objectified/seen more than just a piece of meat to ppl
Sarah should’ve gotten some of the extra horniness outta her system first tho and then had a convo https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/04-vote-for-robin/fakey/
Miri
I think she meant “repeatedly, in between growing and changing together as people in a long-term relationship, like the sea and a cliff change together over decades and longer”…? Maybe? Rather than a one-off climactic smash…
But her parents-divorce-trauma seems to include a side of “relationships are transient. You can’t expect anything to last” so maybe not, or maybe not consciously, or maybe she’d like that but doesn’t think it’s realistic…
And he’s looking for The One.
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 14: Lay It On Me
Michael Steamweed
Personally, I’m voting for panel 4 (the entire text) to be a DoA book title. Sure, it’s kind of long, but Willis can just make an outsized book.
Queen Anthai
Please let this happen. Please give Sarah one good thing.
Coatl
Hahaha, those expressions from Sarah
Taffy
Oh hey, it’s the kind of encounter he explicitly said he’d prefer to avoid, like a decade ago. Like, he wants to be wanted for more than his body and Sarah was all “Damn, now I feel bad for only wanting your body.” and now she’s all “Damn, get your body in my body”, so that’s probably gonna be a little weird for him. It’s like the author remembered previously-established character traits or something.
Nono
To be fair, it doesn’t have to be a downside as long as that’s not the only reason she’s interested in him. He only doesn’t want to be seen JUST as a sexual being, not that he’s celibate altogether.
Taffy
I’m pretty sure that if Jacob fucks, the comic has to end.
Wereg
It probably should be a downside given that one of Jacob’s big early character moments was him talking about how he struggled with being seen as a sex object. Like, I hope he takes this well because it would be good for both characters if he did, but I’m really not expecting him to take this well and this was kinda fucked up of Sarah to say.
StClair
Honest, though!
Throwatron
All things considered, Jacob is clearly interested in Sarah on some level, ’cause he’s still putting up with all of this.
Mark
Maybe he likes unsolved mysteries.
Wereg
I’m trying my hardest to not read Sarah’s actions in the worst light possible, but good god do I not understand why Jacob’s putting up with her antics. I’m glad he is, but I don’t get it.
DashWallkick
He’s gotten to know her pretty well, has fond feelings towards Joyce (minus one big incident), and knows that they’re deeply close and trust one another. He knows that Sarah struggles with vulnerability and some of that comes from Raidah.
Ergo — Sarah has to have some part of her that’s better for him, he knows she’s into him, and he’s just patiently trying to encourage her to be upfront about it. Hence why he put his foot down with her in the gym. If she’s willing to put in the effort, he’s willing to as well. She just has to make the first scary step.
This is basically close enough, graded on a Sarah Curve(tm)
True Survivor
I agree. Also this is how a ton of horror stories start – with frothy surf beating against a rocky cliffside, not the college students coming on to each other. Though I guess a lot of horror tales start that way, too.
cbwroses
I assume the counselors in the original Friday the 13th were college students.
Though in my anecdotal experience, it’s actually High School kids, specifically seniors, that start horror movies off the most (Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, I know what you did last summer).
Hell, old school Scooby-Doo cartoons sometimes had both, though most people outside the cartoon wouldn’t call it a horror, though it probably feels like one to the characters.
Dday
Yeah, but even if this relationship has nowhere to go, it’s cathartic to *finally* see Sarah get this off her chest. Now if Jacob rejects her, she can actually process it and ultimately find a new rocky cliffside upon which to manifest as a frothy surf.
anon
I’m sure somewhere deep down Sarah would have to care a bit about jacob, otherwise she’d prolly just pick a joe-adjacent ‘fuckboy’ that wouldn’t be a bother to her after a hookup to ‘get it out of her system’ so to speak
Dday
Yeah, she clearly feels a focused, burning passion for him. The fact that her feelings are erotic doesn’t mean she’s just generically horny.
… Although, I recall she did remark to Joyce that she just wanted to “use him for his body once or twice”. I think that was just what the politicians call “locker room talk”.
Ray Radlein
Guessing it will continue to feel great for Sarah to have said that for a good five, maybe ten more seconds before her mortification levels exceed 500% of maximum
Dday
Sarah just got +10 respect from me
Muttski
I don’t know how Jacob is going to react to that. He strikes me as someone looking for more than just, lustful attraction from a potential partner.
Probably could have led with something a little less “honest”.
eh, whatever
Well, if he likes poetry…
DailyBrad
I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me and be broken.
Gbz
I’m so glad I was not.the only.one who thought of this.
John Campbell
Welp, Sarah’s snapped.
NGPZ
Nah, her snapped face hits different.
I’m pretty sure this is flustered mixed with horny. XD
HueSatLight
That’s pretty candorous. Candorful. I don’t think she’s going to get what she’s hoping for, we already know he doesn’t like other people seeing him as just a sex object. I like to read him as not even looking for romance right now, just friends.
Let’s see how he rejects her. I kind of want him to not take her candor as well as he said he would. I mean it would suck for both of them, but Jacob’s a little too boring. More “Jacob does not understand”, less “oh he’s so patient”, please.
I’ve got a ship for Sarah though, but not during gay pride month. Going to wait until straight indifference month, Heteronorvember.
Clif
Why have I never heard the word candorous before?
someone
Pretty sure that’s a Star Wars character, not a word.
Candorous Ordo. I think he’s in Knights of the Old Republic.
LeafletErin
Yes. Canderous Ordo (Later known as Mandalor the Preserver) is a character from the 2 KotOR games.
However given their spelling my guess is that they were attempting to find the proper tense of the word “Candor” for their statements.
Candor being defined as follows: “the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.”
Mark
That’s what I read: the next level above “candid”. It’s a word I want to remember.